The Legend of Bhagat Singh

This may actually be a decent Hindi Movie. omg!!! hopefully few dance sequences and a minor love story or no love story.
http://www.lOn March 23, 1931, in the dead of the night, three bodies are smuggled out of Lahore Central Jail via the back gate. They are taken to an isolated place, chopped up into pieces and surreptitiously cremated by British officers. The next day, this incident creates a national uproar throughout India.

Who was this man who struck such fear in the powerful British government that they had to destroy his dead body in the darkness? Who was this man whose memory invokes such powerful emotions even 71 years after his death?

He was Bhagat Singh - India’s most beloved son. An extraordinary young man who happily became a martyr for his country at the tender age of 23; a revolutionary who single-handedly shook up the powerful British government, exposing their true barbaric nature. A man for whom victory lay in his own death. This is his story, The Legend of Bhagat Singh.

This film takes us on the journey of Bhagat Singh’s remarkable life. His searing anguish as a 12-year-old at the horrific Jallianwala massacre, his whole-hearted participation in Gandhi’s non-cooperation movement of 1921, his disillusionment after Gandhi summarily calls it off, his obsessive search as a teenager for a strategy that would free his country from the inhuman yoke of British Rule.

All the while we never lose touch with the heart of Bhagat - as the beloved son who has to leave his family, as the young romantic who forces himself to break the heart of the girl who loves him, who waits for him until the end.

The film sees his growth as a freedom-warrior from his abrasive first meeting with the legendary Chandrashekhar Azad to his own rise as the foremost leader of Azad’s revolutionary party. As an activist who believed in direct action, Bhagat Singh responds to the public battering of Lala Lajpat Rai with a gun in his hand. But with that one assassination, he finds himself alienated from his own countrymen. Isolated and frustrated. How can he make his voice reach the Indian masses?

The answer - a final charge against the British government. A charge that begins with the outrageous bomb explosion in the national assembly and ends two years later with the entire nation rallying behind Bhagat Singh, echoing his call of “Long Live Revolution”.

It is here that Bhagat Singh’s true heroism is revealed. Alone, jailed, physically helpless and isolated, Bhagat Singh nonetheless manages to bring the world’s biggest power to its knees. His single-handed battle with the British rulers inspires courage in the Indian youth and gives a nation its self-respect back. Even if it means he has to pay for this fight with his life.

Truly, for this great revolutionary, his death was his victory.
egendofbhagatsingh.com/story.htm

here is the address:
http://www.legendofbhagatsingh.com/story.htm

Legend of bhagat Singh!

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Umair Bhai - I hope you are not insulting Bhagat Singh. Bhagat Singh is a legend for both the countries.


AK

There was another movie which I enjoyed watching, called "Saheeed-e-Mohabbat, Boota Singh" (sorry if ive got the name wrong)... It was a very sentimental movie...

Trust me friend, if he was a legend in our country, Bhagat wouldn't mean what it means.


... I read the above. Question answered

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**Trust me friend, if he was a legend in our country, Bhagat wouldn't mean what it means.

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If you didn't know 'BHAGAT' is a Common word in URDU/HINDI/PUNJABI Languages which means DEVOTEE and also If you didn't know Bhagat Singh was a SIKH and he was born in Punjab (Pakistan).

It only furthurs my belief about the history you have studied.


AK

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Originally posted by sambrialian:
*... I read the above. Question answered
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Yeah, Since you didn't get your Independence from the British, but from the Indians


AK

Yeah definatley, my history was much different than the one you studied, independence from India?

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Bhaghat in my language which is urdu not hindi means someone who is a fool, kind of like Sardar Ji jokes.

oh, now i get the connection, with sardar ji and singh and bhaghat.


comeon guyz...don't want the thread to deviate from the main topic...

actually there are 2 movies being released in toronto on the same wknd, both of the same theme, i.e. Bhagat Singh...One is of course, The Legend of Bhagat Singh, starring Ajay Devgan...and the other one is shaheed, starring Suny and Bobby Deol...

dunno much bout the history here...gets me curious who was this guy, and why are there 2 movies being released on the same wknd on the same theme?

anyone?


If I'm dreaming, never let me wake. If I'm awake, never let me sleep.

Why do Punjabi Muslims make fun of Punjabi Sikhs? Both of you are from the same blood, correct?

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Why do Punjabi Muslims make fun of Punjabi Sikhs? Both of you are from the same blood, correct?
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What?? Both are from same blood? What crap!

Ever heard of migration of the people.

Finally it's not just that only Punjabi "MUSLIMS" make fun, every does.
Even British.


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WatCh youR wOrdS; they become actions.
WatCh youR aCtiOns; they become habits.
WatCh youR hAbiTs; they become character.
WatCh youR chaRactEr; it becomes your dEsTinY."

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Originally posted by DeSiMuNdA:
actually there are 2 movies being released in toronto on the same wknd, both of the same theme, i.e. Bhagat Singh...One is of course, The Legend of Bhagat Singh, starring Ajay Devgan...and the other one is shaheed, starring Suny and Bobby Deol...
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DM, Actually It was Supposed to be just one movie (LEGEND OF BHAGAT SINGH) by Rajkumar Santoshi in which Sunny Deol was going to star as Chandrashekhar Azad and He wanted His Brother Bobby Deol to Play the Role of Bhagat Singh. Unfortunately Rajkumar Santoshi didn't agree with him and wanted to cast Ajay Devgan as Bhagat singh. So both of them decide to make their own movie, one starring Ajay Devgan and the other Bobby Deol as Bhagat Singh. 30 years ago there was another movie called 'SHAHEED' on Bhagat Singh.

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dunno much bout the history here...gets me curious who was this guy, and why are there 2 movies being released on the same wknd on the same theme?
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Bhagat Singh was Born Much Before India-Pakistan thing were Born. He Was born on 27 Sep 1907 in Layalpur (now in Pakistan) in a Sikh family. In 1928 when Simon Commission Came to India Freedom Fighter Punjab Kesri Lala Lajpat Rai was beaten to death by the British while doing a NON-Violent Protest. Bhagat Singh decided to take revenge and tried to shoot the British Office responsible for that. (Instead he shot another British Officer). He Flee from Lahore to escape the death punishment and landed up in Delhi. In 1929 the british passed the Defence India act which would give more powers to the British Police. Bhagat Singh who was in hiding all this while, volunteered to throw a bomb in the central assembly where the meeting to pass the ordinance was being held. It was a carefully laid out plot, not to cause death or injury but to draw the attention of the government, that the modes of its suppression could no more be tolerated. It was agreed that Bhagat Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt would court arrest after
throwing the bomb.It was a forgone conclusion in 1929 April 8th at Delhi Central Assembly. Singh and Dutt threw handouts, and bombed in the corridor not to cause injury and courted arrest after shouting slogans Inquilab Zindabad.

Meanwhile the killers of the British Officers were identified by the treachery of Bhagat Singh's friends who became "Approvers." Bhagat Singh thought the court would be a proper venue to get publicity for the cause of freedom, and did not want to disown the crime. But he gave a fiery statement giving reasons for killing which was symbolic of freedom struggle. He wanted to be shot like a soldier, and not die at the gallows. But, his plea was rejected, and he was hanged on the 23rd of March 1931. He was 24.

Indian History doesn't say a lot about Him either but his legend has lived through Folklore.

UMAIR - I dont know the Urdu spoken in your country, but in my country BHAGAT means - DEVOTEE.


AK

Asif_k Urdu is also spoken in your country... Infact I saw some really good Urdu institutes in Delhi, they have not stopped work on it... Its a super language...

The only place in India where hindi is spoken is in there television news, you can't understand one word they are saying but if you watch Indian films and drama they speak normal urdu.
Whats up with that ?


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** Infact I saw some really good Urdu institutes in Delhi, they have not stopped work on it... Its a super language...**
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Spock, Every Language is great, be it Urdu, English, Hindi or Sanskrit or BANGLA.

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Originally posted by UMAIR316:
The only place in India where hindi is spoken is in there television news, you can't understand one word they are saying but if you watch Indian films and drama they speak normal urdu.
Whats up with that ?

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Do you want the British and Americans to use the same Language (they use in their movies )in their news. Hindi news is for us not for you.

Anyways get back to the topic of the thread.


AK

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Do you want the British and Americans to use the same Language (they use in their movies )in their news. Hindi news is for us not for you.
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Really bad example my friend, as far as I'm concerned both American films and news have the same language maybe slangs in movies and appropriate words in news but hindi news anchors speak an opposite language.


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Originally posted by UMAIR316:
** Really bad example my friend, as far as I'm concerned both American films and news have the same language maybe slangs in movies and appropriate words in news but hindi news anchors speak an opposite language.**
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Its the same thing. Since you are unable to understand it doesn't mean they speak an opposite Language.

Care to get back to the Topic please ? Wo What do you know about the Legend of Bhagat Singh ? Let me guess - He was a Fool and he was a Sardar. What else ??


AK

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Originally posted by Asif_k:
** Its the same thing. Since you are unable to understand it doesn't mean they speak an opposite Language.

Care to get back to the Topic please ? Wo What do you know about the Legend of Bhagat Singh ? Let me guess - He was a Fool and he was a Sardar. What else ??

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He was YOU.......